BREMEN. In February, BLG LOGISTICS took over the logistics of supplying the Mercedes-Benz Vans assembly plant in Charleston (USA).

VAREL-DANGAST. In January, the Schutzgemeinschaft Deutsche Nordseeküste (SDN), which translates as Association for the Protection of the German North Sea Coast, celebrated its 50th anniversary, and its chairman Gerd-Christian Wagner said: “SDN has now been around for over 50 years. It is concerning that the threat to the North Sea from increasing industrialisation and its effects has not diminished, despite all the specific individual successes.

WILHELMSHAVEN/HAMBURG. To meet the increasing demand for sustainably produced energy as well as the related need for well-engineered logistics concepts for the storage and transport of components, Deugro and Nordfrost combined their strengths in a partnership in January.

ELSFLETH. In January, Dr Georgios Athanassiou was appointed as Professor for Human-Machine Interaction in autonomous ship navigation systems at Jade University of Applied Sciences.

NORDDEICH. Digital solutions are to be used in the future in such a way to control light that ensures safe port operations for goods handling and passenger movements, as well as reducing the impact on the Wadden Sea.

BRAKE. In the presence of Olaf Lies, Lower Saxony’s Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Construction and Digitalisation, and NPorts Managing Director Holger Banik, the first birth for large ships was inaugurated at the south pier in Brake in February.

BREMERHAVEN. In February, the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Maersk Logistics Campus took place in Bremerhaven’s fishing port: a modern and sustainable logistics centre is due to be built on an area of almost 70,000 square metres for the storage of sporting goods and other goods.

BREMEN. Matthias Magnor, COO and member of BLG LOGISTICS board of management (2nd from left), and Dekra Germany CEO Guido Kutschera (2nd from right) agreed on a long-term partnership between their companies in January.

STADE. After the inauguration of Germany’s first LNG terminal in Wilhelmshaven on 17 December, the first pile was rammed into the ground in January for the construction of the next LNG jetty in Lower Saxony.

BREMEN. Bahri Logistics recently launched a new liner service with RoRo ships, connecting Asian ports with India and Northern Europe.

BREMERHAVEN. Construction of the first of the new passenger bridges for the cruise terminal began at the Columbus Quay in January.

CUXHAVEN. Robert Habeck (left), the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, visited the Siemens Gamesa plant in Cuxhaven in late January, which was inaugurated in 2018 and manufactures wind turbines for offshore farms.

BREMERHAVEN. The entrance to the Geeste outer harbour and fishing harbour was brought up to date with nautical regulations in December.

BREMEN. In light of the provisional 2022 figures published by the Bremen Ports in December, BHV – Bremische Hafen- und Logistikvertretung – has called for cooperation among North German seaports.

BREMEN. As part of the four-part workshop series “Branchendialog Logistik” (Logistics Industry Talk), around 30 experts from the logistics and maritime sectors met up in late 2022 to discuss how to effectively face the changing working world.

BREMEN/BREMERHAVEN. Due to the global economic slowdown and the economic impact of Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine, the turnover figures for Bremen’s ports fell in 2022.

BRAKE. Christian Helten took over as head of the NPorts seaport in Brake early in 2023, and was shown the ropes by his predecessor Harald Ludwig from last September.

WILHELMSHAVEN. Nordfrost, a frozen food logistics and solutions company, and the Eurogate subsidiary Remain Container-Depot and Repair have been working together in German container seaports since December.

HAMBURG. In November, the Association of German Seaport Operators (ZDS) elected a new board.

BREMEN. Bremen Ports was certified according to “PERS” (Port Environmental Review System), an environmental management standard, for the sixth time.

WILHELMSHAVEN. The electrification of the railway infrastructure of the JadeWeserPort was completed in December.

BREMEN. In December, the ro-ro carrier “Auto Energy” of the Norwegian shipping company United European Car Carriers (UECC) won the “Greenports Award” from bremenports for the “most eco-friendly vessel”.

BREMEN. In January, the BHV Project Logistics Forum took place for the tenth time in the Haus der Bürgerschaft in Bremen.

WILHELMSHAVEN. On 17 December, the first LNG terminal in Germany was inaugurated in Wilhelmshaven.

BREMEN. Bremen ports and the most densely populated German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) could work together even more closely in the future and both reap the benefits of doing so.

BREMEN. At the members’ annual meeting in December, the Association of Bremen Freight Forwarders elected a new board.

OLDENBURG. In December, Olaf Lies, Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Construction and Digitalisation for Lower Saxony, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of NPorts, succeeding Dr Bernd Althusmann, who stepped down from the political arena.

BREMEN/BREMERHAVEN. “bremenports is still on track with its expansion plans,” stated Robert Howe at the end of 2022, summarising the past year. At the time, the workforce comprised 401 employees and 33 apprentices.

BREMEN. Bruno Molina Stagi was awarded the DAAD Prize for his outstanding academic achievements as well as for his social engagement.

BREMEN. The BLG Group has reorganised sales in its Automobile division to further optimise contact with its customers and the market.